How Ethereum Traders Played the Merge
One crypto intelligence firm revisits its selloff predictions from a month ago. Predictions that the Ethereum merge would be a “buy the rumor, sell the news” event have primarily played…
What Is Proof-of-Stake?
Proof-of-stake maintains integrity in a blockchain, ensuring cryptocurrency users can’t mint coins they didn’t earn. Proof-of-stake is a method of maintaining the integrity of a cryptocurrency, preventing users from printing…
Ethereum Miners Are Quickly Dying Less Than 24 Hours After the Merge
Now redundant, Ethereum miners are flocking to other proof-of-work tokens after the network switched to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and finding slim pickings. Ethereum miners find it increasingly hard to…
Interest Rates: Different Types and What They Mean to Borrowers
What Is an Interest Rate? The interest rate is the amount a lender charges a borrower and is a percentage of the principal loaned. The interest rate on a loan…
What Is XRP (Ripple)?
Ripple is a money transfer network designed to serve the financial services industry’s needs. XRP is the native cryptocurrency that the Ripple network does, and it consistently lists among the…
DiFi or Die Trying: A Quick and Dirty Overview of Digital Finance
Emerging from the ashes of the financial wildfire that spread across the world in 2008, the seeds of a new digital financial ecosystem germinated from an email sent by Satoshi…
What Is A Bitcoin Wallet?
Even though Bitcoin only exists digitally, you’ve got to keep it somewhere, whether you’re hoping to use it to buy goods or services today or invest it for the long…
Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them
Ever heard of rug pulls and pig butchering? Be more intelligent than the scammers and learn how common crypto scams work in detail. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
Breaking up with ETH before the “Merge”
Where do we go from here after the ETH Merge? So, I put considerable effort and funds into GPU mining before “The Merge” was understood and how it impacted crypto…
Ukraine is under attack by hacking tools repurposed from the Conti cybercrime group
Researchers from Google and IBM see an unprecedented blurring of lines. Financially motivated hackers with ties to a notorious Conti cybercrime group are repurposing their resources for use against targets…